A secondary vocational school student produced a viral Harry Potter hit, which has received collective praise from European and American celebrities and Hollywood producers.
It's absolutely blowing up!!!
Who could have imagined that 25 years after the first Harry Potter film was released, a Chinese secondary vocational school student would use AI to produce a global viral hit.
This time, Draco Malfoy is directly turned into a blonde girl, who even falls in love with her arch-rival Harry, staging a forbidden love intertwined with love and hate.
What's more, this AI derivative work has racked up a staggering 30 million views on overseas platforms (mindblowing.jpg)!?
Even this wildly reimagined derivative work has drawn a flood of likes from European and American celebrities and Hollywood producers —
Over here, American singer JVKE left an enthusiastic message in the work's comment section, thanking the creator for using his song as the soundtrack, and even followed the creator all the way to the Bilibili comment section to interact:
Over there, Hollywood producer PJ Accetturo, who once recommended *Zombie Sweepers*, also expressed his admiration in the work's comment section, saying bluntly: Another masterpiece!!!
Netizens from the United States, Brazil, Spain, South Korea and other regions are even more obsessed, spontaneously recording reaction videos and following this AI version of Harry Potter across borders.
But who could have thought that the creator of this massive hit is actually a young Chinese man who never went to university and started his career as a film and television editor.
His name is foyege, and he is also a signed director of the AI creation platform LibTV.
What's more worth mentioning is that this globally viral AI short drama didn't even have a formal script at the very beginning, and was almost entirely based on the creator's impromptu ideas.
With just one person, one computer, and several AI creation tools, he managed to produce a magical romance story that tens of millions of overseas viewers are collectively begging for updates on.
So here comes the question —
How on earth did this AI derivative work that blew up overseas achieve such staggering huge traffic???
A secondary vocational school student wildly reimagines Malfoy, and the derivative work becomes a smash hit overseas
With the development of AI to this day, film and television derivative works are not uncommon, but few have truly broken through to global popularity.
Not to mention that this time the reimagined characters are the arch-rivals in Harry Potter who would draw their wands the moment they meet and wish to throw each other into Azkaban: Harry and Malfoy.
Anyone who has read the original books or watched the movies knows how enduring this rival CP is.
Even after so many years, Harry Potter fans are still going crazy shipping the pair, with fanfics and brilliant edited clips still dominating the charts on all major platforms...
But the most brilliant part of creator foyege is that he didn't follow the conventional plot routines, but directly used AI to give Malfoy a gender-swapped radical rework —
The once arrogant platinum young master has turned into a cold, proud blonde young lady.
On one side, she has secretly developed feelings for her arch-rival Harry and engages in intense emotional tug-of-war with him, on the other side, there is a centuries-old family feud standing between them... The interweaving of pure love and forbidden desire makes the sense of fate reach its peak directly.
This plot alone is so exciting that it makes your tingle all over!!!!!
As exciting as the plot is, what's even more exciting is the staggering huge traffic this derivative work has received.
I casually checked around, and on all major mainstream platforms at home and abroad from X, YouTube, TikTok to Bilibili, almost every single episode of the work has millions of views.
The entire series has racked up 30 million views overseas, which is a proper global phenomenal hit, like:
Even apart from viewers begging for updates, foyege's backstage has actually received many unexpected heartwarming private messages from netizens.
Some netizens confessed that this AI derivative work has reawakened their beautiful expectations for love.
A domestic viewer told him that she was planning to get a divorce in ten days, but after watching the video, she suddenly recalled the appearance of the two when they first fell in love.
So she finally decided to sit down and communicate with her partner again, and face the rifts in their marriage together. (crying.jpg)
Even an overseas middle-aged viewer, after finishing watching the Malfoy series, wiped her tears while writing a private message to foyege —
Saying that she now understands better to cherish the happiness in front of her, is more patient with her children, and cares more about her wife around her.
foyege even replied in person saying that those words gave him the motivation to keep creating, and wished the whole family peace and happiness. (touching.jpg)
Some are enjoying the exciting plot, some are moved, some are begging for updates.
I guess J.K. Rowling never even imagined that the characters she wrote would become wildly popular all over again in the AI era~
From group scene performance to plot shaping, the AI derivative work presents a film-level blockbuster
With the classic Harry Potter IP as the foundation, plus the strong contrast setting of gender swap, viewers are naturally willing to click in and watch.
But the core that makes everyone follow the story with real emotions and makes the work completely break out of the circle actually lies in its excellent "film production skills".
After all, only when character shaping, narrative rhythm and audio-visual scheduling are integrated as a whole, will the audience truly pay for excellent works!!!
First let's talk about the "character shaping" that everyone cares about a lot.
foyege's most brilliant move is that he completely retained Malfoy's original sharp-tongued, pure-blood arrogance and full-screen hostility that used to make people grit their teeth.
He is mean and provocative in words, picks a fight with Harry whenever he sees him, but in his cool and stunning eyes, there is full of the sense of fragility trapped by family fate, as well as the hidden secret attention that cannot be concealed —
He is both aggressive and makes people can't help but feel sorry for him, and the sense of proportion is perfectly controlled!!!
In contrast, Harry has become a clumsy secret admirer whose defense is broken step by step by this proud yet fragile young lady, and his full hostility has unconsciously fermented into awkward crush.
This contrasting character setting of stubbornly sharp tongue + fragile inner core precisely hits all the audience's preferences for a proud young lady and forbidden tragic romance:
After establishing a vivid character, what is even more worth savoring is the "narrative rhythm" of the whole work, which is comparable to that of mature idol dramas.
It is worth mentioning that foyege takes the most addictive slow-burn emotional tug-of-war route, and each episode is accurately stuck at the audience's excitement points and emotional pain points.
In terms of plot, the first two episodes first fill the air with the gunpowder smell between the two arch-rivals:
The young lady taunts sharply, Harry confronts her head-on, but while the two are still bickering, their dodging eyes have already revealed their true feelings, and the ambiguous atmosphere is gradually built up little by little.
In the third episode, the emotional rhythm is directly accelerated, conflicts and crushes are densely intertwined, the proud shell of the young lady cracks, and Harry's hostility is completely turned into distress.
But what I most want to talk about is the flashback scene at the end of the third episode —
When Harry's mind flashes through every bit of the past time he spent with Malfoy, and the moment he finally sees his own true feelings, it can be called the stroke of genius of the whole drama, directly pushing the sense of fate and the joy of shipping the pair to the highest peak:
Apart from the engaging plot, what most tests the director's skill is the camera scheduling and character performance.
We all know that for AI dramas, no matter how realistic the appearance of the characters is, once the camera movement logic is chaotic and the characters' eyes are stiff and cannot convey the emotions, the audience will be pulled out of the plot in a second!!!
In fact, the control of audio-visual language and character performance of this derivative work is so sophisticated that it is comparable to mature theater blockbusters —
Let's directly look at the group dance scene in the ball below. In the first 10 seconds, a smooth 360-degree orbiting camera movement sweeps across the entire banquet hall panorama.
It not only instantly establishes the grand spatial depth, but also renders the luxurious style of the pure-blood aristocratic vanity fair and the dramatic tension of undercurrents surging under the surface incisively and vividly.
The scheduling of big scenes and the portrayal of group characters are all perfectly handled:
Even in this ball scene, the stunning appearance of Miss Malfoy is full of storyboard ingenuity from the creator that is comparable to a professional director.
First, Harry casually looks back, and as the BGM hits the climax drumbeat, the camera instantly cuts to the back of Malfoy in a mermaid dress.
Immediately after that, the camera switches at high density, from the close-up of her cold and noble side face, to the Slytherin metal snake-shaped waistband wrapped around her waist.
In just 20 seconds, 6 camera positions are switched smoothly, and the progressive visual impact directly pushes the dramatic tension of "arch-rivals falling for each other in a second" to the maximum:
Three points depend on the picture, seven points depend on the sound. Apart from the sophisticated camera scheduling, the control of sound effect design of the whole drama is also worth mentioning.
A very typical plot is the highlight scene in the second episode — Miss Malfoy steps forward to stand up for Harry and confront the Death Eaters head-on.
The opening uses low-pitched string music and electronic pulses as the background, and the slow rhythm reveals a suffocating sense of oppression.
Until the moment the wands clash and the spells explode, the piercing sound effects and heavy drum beats roar suddenly, instantly pushing the tension of life and death on the line to the peak.
There is hardly any unnecessary lines in the whole scene, and it is completely controlled by the sound effect timing and picture editing, which can be regarded as a textbook-level use of sound to capture the audience.
This audio-visual tug-of-war is really brilliant~
From secondary vocational school editor to AI director, how does a one-person film crew operate?
Vivid characters, sophisticated narrative, exquisite audio-visual production, almost all the elements of a hit blockbuster are gathered.
But many people can't imagine that this globally viral AI masterpiece that even Hollywood producers are queuing up to praise doesn't actually have a huge production team behind it —
It is entirely fought by foyege alone.
What's more unexpected is that this creator who has gone viral overseas is not a graduate of a top film school, and he didn't even go to university.
He majored in film and television post-production in secondary vocational school, and his first job after graduation was an editor.
Later, he joined a film and television advertising company in Guangzhou, and worked his way through positions such as screenwriter, camera operator, and producer.
It is precisely this practical experience of working in the trenches that allowed him to master the entire traditional film production process in his mind, making him a veritable one-person film crew.
